Hello! I am a regular reader of your opinions and commentary and appreciate the sensibility of your views. In the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, I have a couple of points that I think you did not address. First, this was a 17 year old boy who crossed state lines with a long gun to “protect” property resulting in the deaths of two people. This was not his community. His support of the former President is not an issue for me, but for the fact that Mr. Trump has called for vigilante justice on multiple occasions. I remember him telling rally goers to attack protesters at his rally and that he would pay their legal fees, thus condoning the violence. For Kyle, whose brain is not even fully developed, to align himself in this way could be dangerous. Again, I appreciate your straightforwardness and want to be equally straightforward with my take on this particular case. Please know that I accept the jury decision.
Thanks JoAnn. Did you watch the trial? Rittenhouse lived less than 20 miles from Kenosha. His father and other family members live there. He worked there sometimes. He considered it his town. Yes, there was a state line between Antioch Ill. and Kenosha, Wisc., but when people say he "crossed state lines" it makes it sound like he drove 300 miles to go somewhere he didn't know much about. He actually went there all the time. I don't see any evidence that Kyle aligned himself with anything Trump said at his rallies about attacking protesters, which the evidence shows he did not do in Kenosha. I've said it was dumb to take a rifle to the riot, and I still say that. But Kenosha was somewhere he obviously considered his home, too.
Hello! I am a regular reader of your opinions and commentary and appreciate the sensibility of your views. In the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, I have a couple of points that I think you did not address. First, this was a 17 year old boy who crossed state lines with a long gun to “protect” property resulting in the deaths of two people. This was not his community. His support of the former President is not an issue for me, but for the fact that Mr. Trump has called for vigilante justice on multiple occasions. I remember him telling rally goers to attack protesters at his rally and that he would pay their legal fees, thus condoning the violence. For Kyle, whose brain is not even fully developed, to align himself in this way could be dangerous. Again, I appreciate your straightforwardness and want to be equally straightforward with my take on this particular case. Please know that I accept the jury decision.
Thanks JoAnn. Did you watch the trial? Rittenhouse lived less than 20 miles from Kenosha. His father and other family members live there. He worked there sometimes. He considered it his town. Yes, there was a state line between Antioch Ill. and Kenosha, Wisc., but when people say he "crossed state lines" it makes it sound like he drove 300 miles to go somewhere he didn't know much about. He actually went there all the time. I don't see any evidence that Kyle aligned himself with anything Trump said at his rallies about attacking protesters, which the evidence shows he did not do in Kenosha. I've said it was dumb to take a rifle to the riot, and I still say that. But Kenosha was somewhere he obviously considered his home, too.
Thank you for the reply and the additional information. Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanks you too!